Realistic enough?

Imagine I want to write a melodrama either because I like this kind of literature or because I want to exploit it bathetically. A first rendezvous between a couple of passionate lovers. What will happen, will Cupid triumph? Big disappointment: No Renaissance garden any more! No Arabian nights! No weekend in the country cottage! No hasty marriage organized by the families! Only two standard computers and a good DSL connection! Does this affect the way language has been used in deep and moving human relationships until now? Are the changes superficial or substantial? How do they affect the way we should teach, exemplify and study grammar and conversation? I was thinking of David Lodge -Also Mario Vargas Llosa- when writing this new post. The change is much bigger with respect to the XIXth century sentimental novels. Who cares about writing love letters any more? Can you imagine waiting one whole month for a love letter?
Utile dulce. I think that there is something worthy of discussion here, in terms of language and communication, in terms of human relations and psychology, in terms of new life conditions.

Bathos:

–noun

1.	a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.

2.	insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.

3.	triteness or triviality in style.

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